Support worker jobs in Swindon

Skills for Care recorded 100 filled community support and outreach posts in Swindon in 2024/25, out of 100 community support and outreach posts in total. That is an 8.2% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Swindon.

The community support and outreach role is 2% of the 5,100 filled adult social care posts in Swindon. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Swindon ran at 34.6%. New starters were 20.7% of community support and outreach posts in Swindon over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Swindon ranks 12th of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 287.5 filled community support and outreach posts, against 100 in Swindon. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Swindon workforce, the same release records 2,600 filled care worker posts, 275 filled senior care worker posts and 100 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Swindon was £12.27 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £23,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Swindon only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Swindon earn a median of £40,280 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Swindon at £26,100, £14,180 below it.